Question: How is the octuplets mom similar to an American CEO?

Answer: She outsourced the main process, she made more inventory than she can properly care for, and she expects bail-outs for her wasteful actions.

Saturn was my real first job and it pains me to learn that after just 24 years, Saturn could possibly be gone. My sadness isn’t so much with seeing the car itself bid farewell, rather it stems from what Saturn stood for at the very beginning, when I was there. The early leaders of Saturn, people I got to know pretty well as a summer student in 1985, mostly came out of the Pontiac Motor division and were heavily influenced by Dr. Deming. In fact, Dr. W. Edwards Deming celebrated his 83rd birthday in 1983 at the Pontiac Motor division, speaking and training with many of the people who would eventually become the top management at Saturn. William Hoglund, the first Saturn president, and Jay Wetzel, vice president of engineering and my first boss, were some of them.

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